Pony Ma
Age: 38
Chairman & CEO, Tencent Holdings
Ma first encountered instant messaging while developing Internet paging systems after college graduation. Fascinated, he decided to develop an IM service in China and in 1999 co-founded Tencent, which now has 448 million active accounts. Under Ma's leadership, Tencent has become China's fourth-largest Internet portal with diversified lines of business ranging from e-commerce to search.
